Harvard University is challenging students to develop entrepreneurial
solutions to problems like global warming and poverty through a $100,000
competition announced today by President Drew Faust.
by Jerilyn Klein Bier
New guide discusses why and how corporations should affect human rights improvements.
by Ellie Winninghoff
La Montanita has launched a community-supported microfinance fund for local farmers that could serve as a model nationwide.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., SuperValu Inc., Walgreen Co...
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Self-Help Ventures Fund, one of the oldest and largest community development financial institutions in the United States, has received a high rating from the CDFI Assessment and Rating System.
by Ellie Winninghoff
These community impact notes help finance green and affordable housing--and the revitalization of communities.
by Tom Kostigen
Impact investing needs indexes, benchmarks and uniform reporting in
order for investors to assess how their social and environmental efforts are affecting investment performance...
by Thomas Kostigen
Showing your value to the wealthiest people in the world may mean
showing your values. And one way to do that is through impact investing.
by Ellie Winninghoff
This fixed-income fund offers a way for advisors to invest in community development projects like affordable housing, wind farms and food banks.
by Eleanor O'Sullivan
Many socially responsible investors don't want to put their money in
companies that use child labor or exploit adult workers...
by Bruce W. Fraser
What should you be doing with those old computers, cell phones and televisions? Ask ERI.
by Bruce W. Fraser
Investors and financial advisors looking for a way to achieve social and
environmental impact, as well as financial reward, might want to
consider impact investing.
More of the wealthy are turning to community investments for some of
their financial and social returns.
Investors-many with the blessings of their financial advisors-have shifted their assets from the Wall Street financial institutions to
the little guys on Main Street.
by Bruce W. Fraser
This advisor started an effort to get rid of all the plastic bottles in his town by partnering with the local water company.
by Bruce W. Fraser
We talk with two scientists with opposing views on how to handle the climate change problem.
by Eleanor O'Sullivan
ShoreBank offers investments that support its mission of helping low- and middle-income people
build wealth.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Barclays Global Investors today launched a
donor-advised fund that allows clients to invest their charitable
contributions in at least 25 iShares ETFs.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. is contributing $600,000 over the
next two years to a project aimed at making sure women have equal
access to leadership roles at all levels of American society.
